{"id":10204,"date":"2014-05-31T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10204"},"modified":"2014-05-31T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:33:27","slug":"limerick-ode-to-john-boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2014\/05\/31\/limerick-ode-to-john-boehner\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To John Boehner"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 2-verse limerick “celebrates” John Boehner, who certainly knows how to be cowardly, evasive, and stupid all at once. Here’s Boehner responding to a question about climate change:<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nAsked by reporters yesterday if he accepts the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming, John Boehner demurred on the curious but increasingly familiar grounds that he is not a scientist. \u201cListen, I\u2019m not qualified to debate the science over climate change,\u201d the House Speaker said. Boehner immediately turned the question to the killing of jobs that would result from any proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which he asserts with unwavering certainty. (On this question, Boehner is not held back by the fact that he is also not an economist.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Limerick Ode To John Boehner
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

John Boehner, it seems, knows the score;
\nHe’ll be kicked by his “team” out the door
\nShould he ever concede
\nWhat folks know (if they read)
\nThat our climate is changing full-bore.<\/p>\n

So Boehner will simply rebuff
\nAny queries re climate change stuff.
\n“Can’t debate it he claims;
\nHis “not qualified” aims
\nTo dodge facts, cuz his pals prefer guff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 2-verse limerick “celebrates” John Boehner, who certainly knows how to be cowardly, evasive, and stupid all at once. Here’s Boehner responding to a question about climate change: Asked by reporters yesterday if he accepts the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming, John Boehner demurred on the curious but increasingly familiar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1718,20,36,6,7,3,9,84],"tags":[2906,2491,2780,2763,2769,702],"class_list":["post-10204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-gop-humor","category-john-boehner","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-science-verse","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science","tag-global-warming","tag-gop-humor","tag-john-boehner","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10204"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10213,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions\/10213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}